Does socioeconomic context influence the health of Canada’s First Nations population?
Canada’s aboriginal population has lower life expectancy and self-rated health than the greater Canadian population, and higher rates of morbidity, chronic disease, suicide, injury, and mortality – an alarming fact, given the cardinal role of health in our overall well-being. Aboriginal health research has suffered the same fate as other issues pertaining to this group of Canadians—a shortage of studies, a narrow perspective that rarely includes social determinants, and very little generalizable causal work. ♦ In 2001, approximately 1.32 million people self identified as having Aboriginal ancestry (2001 Census) ♦The Registered Indian population numbered 703 800 in over 600 Bands, with approximately 419 800 (60%) on-reserve (INAC 2004) ♦The proportion of Registered Indians living on-reserve is projected to increase from an estimated 60% in 2001 to 75% in 2021 Further, the fundamental historical, cultural and socio-economic diversity of Aboriginal peoples is often missed. Yet strong diff
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